London and Nuremberg docs fail to dent New Tricks

The second episode of the tenth series, in which the team investigate the murder of a drug smuggler while Brian confronts his inner demons, fell by over 1m from last week’s opening performance of 7.5m (33.5%).

The show remained well ahead of the 5.3m (22.7%) slot average for the previous 12 months, according to Barb data from Attentional.

The eloquent presenter’s guided tour of the capital’s Square Mile escorted an audience around 600,000 fewer than the 3.71m (15.8%) slot average for the previous 12 months.

A shift from Monday for the final outing of the secretive series - this week following Peter Harvey, boss of slot machine business Quicksilver - resulted in its second lowest performance of the run.

Across its six parts, the show drew an average of 1.68m (7.7%), well down on the 2.23m (8.6%) average achieved by the fourth series last year.   

The US police drama was next in line.

BBC journalist Justin Rowlatt relocated his family to Nuremberg but failed to transport a significant audience with him. The doc was around 500,000 viewers below the slot average of 1.78m (7.5%) and was the worst performing terrestrial programme.

The opening instalment of the three-part series fronted by historian Michael Wood got off to a strong start, well ahead of the slot average 456,000 (1.9%), to be crowned the best-performing multichannel show.

The two-part doc closed with an average of 489,000 (1.9%), down on the slot average 695,000 (2.9%).

It was followed by Badults which hit the halfway point of its six part run with a series high of 361,000 (1.9%). The series is averaging 331,000 (1.7%), behind the slot average of 576,000 (3%).